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Feb 27, 2025

Spinning into quantum research

Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Ph.D. student Aaron Day shares some key everyday items he uses in researching semiconductors for quantum applications

Applied Physics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Graduate Student Profile, Materials, Quantum Engineering, Research, Technology

Aug 19, 2025

A Wearable Robot That Learns

New control algorithm personalizes user experience for stroke, ALS patients

AI / Machine Learning, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Health / Medicine, Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering, Research, Robotics, Wearable Devices

Dec 14, 2024

How future heat may kill millions of healthy people

Harvard Salata Institute

Even healthy people cannot survive the extreme heat beginning to afflict large regions of the world, writes climate scientist Kaighin McColl, explaining his new research into uncompensable heat stress.

Climate, Environment, Environmental Science & Engineering

Nov 12, 2025

The Next Frontier In Clean Flight? Jet Fuel From City Waste

Research explores sustainable aviation fuel from municipal solid waste

Environmental Science & Engineering, Research

A scanning electron microscope image of a bilayer metasurface

Apr 1, 2025

Doubling down on metasurfaces

Bilayer device can control many forms of polarized light

Applied Physics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering, Optics / Photonics, Research

Artist's rendering of Mars 4 billion years ago with oceans on its surface.

Jan 27, 2025

Explaining persistent hydrogen in Mars’ atmosphere

New insight into Red Planet’s hot again, cold again history

Environmental Science & Engineering, Planetary Science, Research

optical micrograph of microwave-optical transducer device

Apr 2, 2025

A router for photons

Transducer could enable superconducting quantum networks

Applied Physics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Industry, Materials, Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering, Optics / Photonics, Quantum Engineering, Research, Technology

artist's impression of mid-IR laser chips

Apr 16, 2025

A compact, mid-infrared pulse generator

Single chip generates short bursts of light for sensing, spectroscopy

Applied Physics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Optics / Photonics, Research, Technology

Feb 13, 2025

Mapping connections in a neuronal network

Silicon chip detects, catalogs 70,000 synaptic connections from 2,000 neurons

Applied Physics, Bioengineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Research

May 9, 2025

Michael Smith named a Harvard College Professor

University honors five for excellence in undergraduate teaching

Awards, Computer Science

detail view of springtail-inspired microrobot

Feb 26, 2025

A springtail-like jumping robot

Diminutive device can leap 23 times its body length

Electrical & Computer Engineering, Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Technology

Apr 16, 2025

RoboBee comes in for a landing

Microrobot gets crane fly-inspired legs for soft touchdowns

Electrical & Computer Engineering, Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering, Research, Robotics

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